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Richard Fyffe

Rosenthal Librarian of the College and Associate Professor

M.S., Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston

M.A., Philosophy, University of Connecticut

B.A., Philosophy, University of Connecticut

Curriculum Vitae

 

641-269-3351

fyffe@grinnell.edu

 

Areas of Responsibility

Administrative director of the Grinnell College Libraries.

 

Professional and Scholarly Interests

Philosophy of technology; environmental philosophy; information policy and information ethics; copyright law; scholarly communication and scholarly publishing.

 

Recent Publications

“Library Records,” with Ada Emmett. Encyclopedia of Privacy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007 : 327-330.

 

Digital Preservation: A Campus-wide Perspective , with Deborah Ludwig and Beth Forrest Warner. ECAR Research Bulletin, vol 2005, no 18. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2005. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1481.

 

The Digital Difference: Responsible Conduct of Research in a Networked World. With Scott Walter. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Graduate School, 2005. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/230

 

“Where the Giants Stand: Protecting the Public Domain in Digitization Contracts with Commercial Publishers,” with Beth Forrest Warner. Journal of Library Administration 42:3/4 (May 2005). Preprint available: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/139

 

“Technological Change and the Scholarly Communications Reform Movement: Reflections on Castells and Giddens,” Library Resources and Technical Services 46:2 (April 2002): 50-61. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/125. Winner of the Blackwell Scholarship Award and the “Best of LRTS” Award, 2003, Association for Library Collections & Services / American Library Asssociation).

 

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